I remember some of their comments. Back then the mods had hair trigger tempers (more then than now) whereas now they mainly just delete posts rather than ban outright (well, most of the time anyway). You should have seen JimRob and Travis go at it in some of the immigration threads last year regarding the subject of "vigilantism". And both are from CA!
I don't think it makes any difference what state you are from. There are some people who see the complete forest, trees and all.